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Dr. Peter Lewis, Canada Research Chair in Trustworthy AI and FBIT Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Studies, gave an invited keynote talk at the Digital Trust Convention, at the OECD Headquarters in Paris.

During reading week, the Trustworthy AI Lab took some time away for our Fall retreat. To kick off the day we took time to reflect on the lab, our targets, our progress, and the atmosphere we would to create and work in.

This week, Peter gave a keynote on Navigating the Artificial Intelligence Landscape at the North Durham Building Business forum, hosted at the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation Health and Resource Centre.

On the 21st of October, Arsh Chowdhry presented on behalf of our recent MSc graduate Parisa Salmani at the European Conference of Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024). Parisa’s work, entitled Transfer Learning Can Introduce Bias was accepted as a full paper in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, and presented via a short talk and poster; see photos.

On the 20th of October, our recent MSc graduate Arsh Chowdhry, travelled to Santiago de Compostela for the Multi-Objective Decision Making Workshop (MODeM) hosted at the European Conference of Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024).

Today, we celebrated the hard work and achievements of Zahra Ahmadi, MSc! The lab will dearly miss you. Good luck in your future endeavours Zahra, all the best!

We would like to welcome Stavros Anagnou, a Mitacs Globalink Reserach Internship fellow working under the supervision of Dr. Peter R. Lewis on using game theory to understand the emergence of institutions.

On Friday the 20th of September, Zahra Atf presented research entitled Evaluating the Trustworthiness of User-Generated Content on Social Media at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2024).

From the 16th-20th of September, members of the Trustworthy AI Lab attended the 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS2024). On Thursday, Dr Lewis was joined on the Expert Panel by Dr Amanda Muller, Chief of Responsible Technology at Northrop Grumman, and Dr Jeremy Pitt, Professor of Intelligent and Self-Organising Systems at Imperial College London, to discuss ‘Building trust in self* systems’.

Congratulations to Arsh Chowdhry on successfully defending his master’s thesis today! In his research, Arsh developed a novel method for training classification models using multi-objective optimization, such that the resulting models can be simultaneously accurate and fair.